Well one hour to go before we take off. The work table is actually cleaned up. Well, actually it just got shoved into a couple of suitcases. If there is something we've forgotten, we will have to be very creative... So Happy Halloween...

and on another note, we won't be home until the day before voting day...
vote...

Fun Friday again, and we are still getting things together but feeling a bit relaxed...took a photo of the bracelet pile that will be going to Houston with us. As I ate bonbons every night, Al was making product! I'm going to stick with her.

We wanted to share this picture of Al's 4 year old grand daughter Aiden. During her last visit she announced in her special way that she wanted to make a paper doll. I'm sure that she had no idea that there was such a wealth of materials for her dream project. The results can be seen below. Apparently the source of the Power Ranger Salute is unknown. It was impossible to get a photo without it!

Well, at this time next week we will be in Houston. We are still pulling things together, making piles, lists, outfits, hairdo's, models, pins, etc...Above is a pile of houses and samples for our all day class. We have been working on a couple of pairs of embellished jeans...going over directions and details of class directions...It will be a relief to get there and dive into the non-stop list of activities! Just doing the the next thing and the next thing after that...








We have been working on models made from our products and came up with this little tree topper made out of one of our wool felt cones. We turned it into a festive holiday creature. Her body is embellished with felt shapes, arms built with small felt beads, head wrapped with yarn, star charms hanging from wire, paper wings are decorated with paint, hand made paper and glitter...

Better get back to my product development job...
Still a few dayz left to whip up goodies!!

Happy Birthday to my second born...Having a family extravaganza this evening for birthdays, weddings and visiting cousins! It was a busy week putting Houston stuff together and packing it up...making backing cards, checking out advertising prices, sending out our second newsletter, shipping, making samples , etc. etc....

Wanted to share the pics of the Artgirl Halloween cupcakes that we made for supreme employee Matt's birthday! Fun with gum drops! Inspired by M. Stewart...

I have been working on models for Houston using our new felt cone shapes...they have been very fun to work on...came up with a witch, tree topper and a couple of regular Artgirl beauties! The cones are called egg warmers in Nepal, but I thought that they would be great bases for little sculptures. She is embellished with felt shapes, embroidery, our little felt beads make the arms with mix and match hand charms...topped off with a variety of fibers!

Will share the others as time goes by...also have some great little felt bags that will fit femmy young girlz, your cell phone, wallet, secret codes, favorite beads etc... More backing cards to make up...bye bye now...

These are the very first tests of our new rubber stamps on the closest file folder!